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ECE287Project

A fully-featured game engine that takes a game designed in PowerPoint (Yes, really!) and creates a Verilog design ready to be uploaded to an FPGA. The project is no longer maintained, but it should work as it is right now.

The engine has support for:

  • Multiple scenes and transitions between them.
  • Nearly an unlimited number of "objects" in the scene.
  • Animations, collision detection and gravity.
  • Picture compression to minimize the memory usage
  • Support for both Block-RAM and raw register picture storage.
  • Transparency support (Unlimited layers) (Some bugs are still present in the rasterizer)
  • Mouse and keyboard support (PS2 only)
  • Support for multiple user scripts
  • Most of the internal variables can be exposed in a safe way.
  • Sprite support (Max 255 sprites per picture)

Tested with MAX10 and Cyclone V FPGAs

Useful Tags for the PowerPoint compiler:

Supported Tags and their Operations

[NAME=______]; Gives the object a name. This is need on all objects and pictures.

[MOVEABLE]; Tells the compiler to make this object movable. If you use this tag and don’t give it a desired way of movement. Then it will add the nameX and nameY to the header of the file.

[BORDER]; Lets the compiler know to bounce it off the giver border or the edges of the screen.

[TRANSPARENT]; Let the compiler know to use the object or pictures set transparency.

[BOUNCING]; This tells the compiler to make the object bounce around the screen.

[AnimationSpeed=___]; The speed the object will travel per frame refresh (60 screen refreshes per second)(speed in in pixels).

[MEMORY]; Tell the compiler to store the picture into ram.

[COMPRESIONLEVEL=___]; How much you would like to compress the image. Default is one.

[CURSOR]; Tells the compiler to make this object controlled by the mouse. [COLORBITS=____]; How many bits you wish to use for each color (RGB). Only use this if the image is not being stored in memory.

[WASDMovement]; This object will move with the “wasd” keys. Must also have the tag [MOVEABLE];

[ARROWMovement]; This object will move with the arrow keys. Must also have the tag [MOVEABLE];

[SKIPX]; or [SKIPY]; Tell the compiler you wish to skip part of the picture.

[VISIBLE]; Tell the compiler you wish to control when this picture is visible.